/*
 * Anything: A flexible and easy to use data structure that combines the 
 * characteristics of a list and a hashmap into one data structure.
 * 
 * Based on a paper by Peter Sommerlad and Marcel Rueedi on 
 * 'Do-it-yourself reflection' entered at EuroPLOP 1998.
 * 
 * This library was written completely from scratch and is based only 
 * in spirit on the original Java Anything implementation written by 
 * Andre Weinand/Marcel Rueedi in 1997/99 and enhanced by Stefan Tramm 
 * in 2006.
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Thomas Marti and others. All rights reserved.
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package any.incubator;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import any.Any;

public class AnyBuilder {

	private Any data = Any.create.any();
	
	public static AnyBuilder createChild() {
		return new AnyBuilder();
	}
	
	public AnyBuilder append(Object value) {
		data.append(value);
		return this;
	}

	public AnyBuilder appendAll(Object values) {
		data.appendAll(values);
		return this;
	}

	//TODO: appendEach() nach append() umbenennen?
	public AnyBuilder appendEach(Object... values) {
		data.appendEach(values);
		return this;
	}
	
	public AnyBuilder put(String key, Object value) {
		data.put(key, value);
		return this;
	}

	public AnyBuilder put(Entry<?, ?> entry) {
		data.put(entry);
		return this;
	}
	
	public AnyBuilder putAll(Map<?, ?> map) {
		data.putAll(map);
		return this;
	}
	
	public AnyBuilder putAll(Iterable<? extends Entry<?, ?>> entries) {
		data.putAll(entries);
		return this;
	}
	
	public Any getAny() {
		return data;
	}
}
